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Bowl
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About this work
As European porcelain production advanced over the course of the 18th century, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. This plate’s painted composition with two birds in the foreground, may have been inspired by bird paintings produced at the Vincennes porcelain factory beginning in the late 1740s.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl, c. 1765. Mennecy Factory (French). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration; diameter: 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1964.509
